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Promotion sees Brittain leave his role as boroughs’ top cop
Croydon is to get a new police borough commander, as Andy Brittain is leaving the role he has held since 2019. The Cambridge-educated copper, the most senior officer across Croydon, Sutton and Bromley, has been promoted to Commander, for future … Continue reading
Posted in Andy Brittain, Crime, Knife crime, Policing
Tagged Anthony King, Borough Command Unit, Bromley, Ch Supt Andy Brittain, Croydon, Donna Murray-Turner, Elianne Andam, knife crime, Metropolitan Police, murder, MyEnds, PC Perry Lathwood, Scotland Yard, Sgt Matt Ratana, South BCU, Sutton, youth knife crime
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TfL dusts off plan for £10bn Bakerloo line extension to Bromley
Transport for London’s Christmas present to south-east London was to announce that it is dusting off its plans for an extension of the Bakerloo line to Lewisham, and potentially beyond to Beckenham Junction and Elmers End. The capital’s transport authority … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Commuting, Lewisham, Outside Croydon, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Bakerloo Line, Bakerloo line extension, Beckenham Junction, Bromley, Croydon, Croydon Tramlink, Croydon Trams, DLR, Docklands Light Railway, Elmers End, Lewisham, London, London Tramlink, Mayor, TfL, Transport for London
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Charity funds dramatherapy sessions for children with epilepsy
Children and young people in Croydon living with epilepsy are set to receive additional support from Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, thanks to funding via Croydon Health Charity. The charity recently received a £2,950 grant from Beckenham Theatre Trust to … Continue reading
RSPCA recruiting rescue staff in Croydon, Bromley and Surrey
The RSPCA animal charity is recruiting animal rescue officers, including roles in Croydon, Bromley and for the Warlingham and Caterham area. Animal rescue officers are frontline workers who respond to reports of cruelty, neglect and injury, deal with complaints, and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charity
Tagged Bromley, Caterham, Coulsdon, Croydon, jobs, Purley, RSPCA, RSPCA animal rescue officers, Warlingham
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Finally a ‘tram’ rolls up at Crystal Palace – except it’s a bus!
No, that wasn’t really a tram you just saw trundling up Anerley Hill. It was the new, tram-lookalike 358 electric bus, part of a fleet of 20 zero emission vehicles which have come into service today. It has been 20 … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, TfL, Transport
Tagged 358, Bromley, Crystal Palace, London, Mayor, Orpington, Penge, TfL, Transport for London
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Watchdog in call to keep bus fares low and to speed up routes
A report by London TravelWatch, the capital’s independent transport watchdog, is urging widespread improvements to the capital’s bus service, including helping to speed up routes and keeping fares low London TravelWatch said London’s bus network is “lifeline” to millions of … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, TfL, Transport
Tagged Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, London Buses, London TravelWatch, Sutton, TfL, Transport for London
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Bromley does developer deal to secure Churchill Theatre
The future of the Churchill Theatre in Bromley has been “secured”, after discussions between the council, which owns the building, and operators Trafalgar Theatres, with a third-party bidder agreeing to come on board. There had been growing uncertainty over the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Bromley Council, Theatre
Tagged Bromley, Churchill Theatre, Trafalgar Theatres
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Take a journey back in time with Bus Museum’s Heritage Day
Transport geeks can enjoy a bit of a busman’s holiday next weekend, when heritage London Transport buses take to the roads of south London to provide a ride back into the 1950s and ’60s. Harking back to an era of … Continue reading
Posted in History, Transport
Tagged Bromley, Bromley North, Chislehurst, London Bus Museum, Routemaster, RT, Transport for London
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Timetable changes for New Addington and Purley buses
The 289 and 314 buses will be running more frequently from this weekend, with timetable changes implemented by Transport for London from tomorrow, Saturday, August 31. Route 289, between Elmers End and Purley via Addiscombe, West Croydon and Mayday Hospital, … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Commuting, New Addington North, New Addington South, TfL, Transport, Waddon, West Croydon
Tagged 289 bus route, 314 bus route, Ashburton Park, Bromley, Elmers End, Eltham, Mottingham, New Addington, Purley, TfL, Transport for London, Waddon, West Croydon
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Sexual assault detective is dismissed from Metropolitan Police
Disciplinary panel chair says: ‘Police officers are expected to uphold the law not to break it’, but community groups in Croydon are asking why that’s not been applied here A Metropolitan Police detective working in south London has been dismissed … Continue reading
Veolia backs down over road sweeper’s holiday to Portugal
Veolia, who operate the street cleaning and bin emptying contracts in Croydon, have been forced to back down over a decision to ban one of their employees in neighbouring Bromley from taking a £3,000 trip of a lifetime to Portugal, … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Veolia
Tagged Beckenham, Bromey Council, Bromley, On The Beach, Paul Spiers, Portugal, Portugal holiday, Road sweeper, Road sweeper holiday, Veolia
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Croydon and Sutton at centre of Met’s zombie knife amnesty
Owners of dangerous machetes and similar large-bladed weapons can claim ‘compensation’ if they surrender them to the police before a ban comes in on September 24 With the long-promised ban on zombie knives and machetes not due to come into … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Knife crime, Policing
Tagged Bromley, Croydon, Home Office, Machete, Metropolitan Police, Sutton, Zombie knife amnesty, Zombie knives
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Ombudsman creates league table of London’s failing councils
The Housing Ombudsman has launched a special investigation into Lewisham Council, which is guilty of “repeated failings”. The watchdog said it would carry out the probe into the south London council after issuing it with 16 “severe maladministration” findings in … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Bexley, Bromley Council, Croydon Council, Housing, Lambeth Council, Lewisham, London-wide issues, Merton, Southwark Council, Sutton Council, Wandsworth Council
Tagged Alison Butler, Bexley, Brick by Brick, Bromley, Croydon, Croydon Council, Housing Ombudsman, Labour, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richard Blakeway, Southwark, Sutton
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Bromley green lights John Lewis’s 24-storey housing scheme
Bromley’s Conservative-controlled council has granted planning permission to John Lewis for the “Waitrose Tower” which, at 24 storeys, is much taller than any development given the green light in any Croydon district centre. The £500million project will take until 2029 … Continue reading
Poor councils make bad situations worse says Ombudsman
People who have been treated poorly by their local council are all too often having their situations made worse when their council delays putting things right. That’s the view of the Local Government Ombudsman in her annual review of all … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Bromley Council, Children's Services, Croydon Council, Lambeth Council, Merton, SEND, Southwark Council, Sutton Council
Tagged Bromley, Croydon, Croydon Council, Housing, Lambeth, Local Government Ombudsman, London, London Borough of Croydon, Merton, Ombudsman, SEND, Southwark, Sutton
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Serving south London copper cops guilty plea to sexual assault
Croydon’s police commander accused of ‘window-dressing’ as he fails to reply to community complaint over a convicted constable who has been allowed to continue to work A serving Metropolitan Police officer has entered a guilty plea to charges of sexual … Continue reading
South Croydon, Bromley and Beckenham on Aldi’s wish list
Aldi, the country’s fourth-largest supermarket chain, is looking to get even bigger, and is on the hunt for new store locations in South Croydon, as well as Beckenham and Bromley, as part of its rapid expansion drive. Last month, Aldi … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Business, Property, South Croydon
Tagged Aldi, Beckenham, Bromley, Lidl, Marks and Spencer, South Croydon
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The Nasty Party gives rape-shaming Slator a job in Bromley
Our Beckenham correspondent, PETTA WOOD, reports Just in case there were any lingering doubts, the Conservative Party in Bromley at election time has doubled down on its reputation as The Nasty Party by giving an important position to a councillor … Continue reading
2024 General Election: Bromley’s candidates list for July 4
Nominations of candidates to stand in the General Election on July 4 closed at 4pm last Friday. Bromley has four parliamentary constituencies: Beckenham and Penge; Bromley and Biggin Hill; and Orpington, with Eltham and Chislehurst (which contains the Bromley wards … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 General Election, Bromley Council, Outside Croydon
Tagged 2024 General Election, Beckenham and Penge, Bromley, Bromley and Biggin Hill, Bromley Council, Conservative, Eltham and Chislehurst, General Election, General Election 2024, Green Party, Labour, Lambeth council, Liberal Democrats, Orpington, Tory
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Tory election candidate warned by police over dodgy leaflet
A Conservative Party candidate in the General Election has been told by the Metropolitan Police to stop distributing a campaign leaflet that has been designed to appear as if it has the endorsement of the force’s local commander. Hannah Gray, … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 General Election, Bromley Council, Crime, London-wide issues, Policing
Tagged 2024 General Election, Beckenham, Beckenham and Penge, Bromley, Bromley Council, General Election, General Election 2024, Hannah Gray, Metropolitan Police, Penge, Scotland Yard, Superintendent Luke Baldock
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Reigate, Kingston, Sutton: the seats facing ‘The Croydon Effect’
In the second part of our General Election Special, WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, casts his expert eye further afield, to Sutton and Bromley, and even into the Surrey stockbroker belt Compared with Croydon, it’s an entirely different political landscape in … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 General Election, Bobby Dean, Bromley Council, Chrishni Reshekaron, David Campanale, Elliot Colburn, Kingston, Luke Taylor MP, Mario Creatura, Paul Scully MP, Reigate and Banstead Council, Sutton and Cheam, Tom Drummond
Tagged Bobby Dean, Bromley, Chrishni Reshekaron, Clive Efford, Conservative, Croydon, Elliot Colburn MP, Eunice O'Dame, Kingston and Surbiton, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Luke Taylor, Paul Scully, Peter Fortune, Reigate, Sir Bob Neill, Stuart Brady, Sutton and Cheam, Tom Drummond, Tory, Wallington and Carshalton
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Cause of Beckenham Road shop blaze ‘deliberate’ says LFB
The emergency services have declared that the cause of a fire at a shop with flats above in Bromley in the early hours of this morning was “believed to be deliberate”. It took four fire engines and around 25 firefighters … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Crime, London Fire Brigade
Tagged Beckenham Road, Bromley, LFB, London Fire Brigade
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‘Appalling’ GLL is facing strike by library workers in Bromley
Library workers in Bromley are to take strike action over “low pay and shoddy working practices”, according to their union, Unite. Bromley operates 14 public libraries (more than in bigger borough Croydon), plus a volunteer-run mobile library service, all managed … Continue reading
Sudden closure of West Wickham pool for safety reasons
Bromley Council has been forced to close West Wickham Leisure Centre as a “precautionary” measure, “in support of safety”. The council made the announcement yesterday afternoon, less than three months since agreeing to carry out a multi-million-pound refurbishment of the … Continue reading
Posted in Bromley Council, Health, Purley Pool, Swimming
Tagged Bromley, Bromley Council, swimming, West Wickham, West Wickham Leisure Centre, Yvonne Bear
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Fraudsters convicted after decade of online ‘romance’ scams
A couple from south London who tricked victims into sending hundreds of thousands of pounds in a romance fraud have been sentenced. Ibrahim Moro, 33, from Bromley, and Rebecca Patrick, 32, from Croydon, targeted older and vulnerable victims on online … Continue reading
Posted in Crime
Tagged Bromley, Croydon, Metropolitan Police, National Crime Agency, NCA, Romance fraud
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